The prodigal son has returned…Dr. Tan Kee Kwong, the son of Mr. Opposition, the late Tan Sri Dr. Tan Chee Koon (former Labour party MP and later Gerakan founder) joined the chorus of conscientious Gerakan leaders to cut ties with the hopeless UMNO’s-rubber-stamp party to joined the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
Welcome home, Dr. Tan
Dr. Koh Tsu [...]
Merdeka-kah Kita?(0)
As I was reading Ahmad Ismail’s statement and his reiteration of the supposed “racist” statement, I remembered a little “berbalas pantun” I had with a Malaysiakini reader two years back:
He wrote:
Ishak Abd Rahman:
Surat protest di katakan ultimatum Pemuda
Memorandum komponen BN dikatakan permintaaan saja
Jeff Ooi dan Malaysiakini nak main isu apa?
Bebaik nanti termakan kata kata [...]
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century(0)
A suprising paragraph from a new book I bought:
Brian Keenan (An Evil Cradling) describes how, after being beaten by one of his captors, his first thoughts of revenge were replaced by something else:
As my anger diminished I felt a new and tremendous kind of strength flooding me. The more I was beaten the stronger I [...]
Could Anwar Have Won With A Bigger Majority?(1)
My friend, CH sent me an interesting calculation…
At the closing of the poll, it was reported about 65% of the voters turned out (Malaysiakini even reported this piece of info being quoted by Election Commission secretary Kamaruzaman at 6.55pm). But in the end, Election Commission reported that the actual turnout was about 80%. That’s 15% of [...]
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